That year Huayu

“At noon today, Alibaba issued a long announcement:

First: the group has now obtained absolute controlling interest in Youku and will continue to repurchase Youku’s original shares from the remaining shareholders;”

Second: Youku will officially start the delisting process from now on; it plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange within half a year and completely complete the privatization;

Third: Mr. Gu Yongqiang, the former chairman of Youku, will continue to serve as chairman of Youku temporarily until Youku completes the privatization process before making other appointments. "

“According to people familiar with the matter, Alibaba’s aggressive acquisition of Youku totaled nearly 30 billion yuan, and was paid entirely in cash!”

"Since yesterday, Alibaba's big entertainment plan has taken a big step forward and is approaching perfection; Alibaba Pictures and Youku will form a strong complement in terms of functions..."

…

I have to admit that the news that Alibaba has completely swallowed Youku is undoubtedly a big earthquake and storm for the entire film and television industry, entertainment industry, and entertainment industry.

This means that Alibaba, one of the leading Internet companies, has further "controlled" the film, television, entertainment and culture industry, and its influence has once again increased dramatically.

Because Youku, a video website, accounts for more than one-third of the market share! It is one of the important broadcasting platforms for works in the film and television industry and is a port!

The major film and television companies in the industry all became anxious because of Ali's announcement. The reason is that it has a direct interest in himself.

In the past, Alibaba Pictures could only be said to be a strong competitor backed by an Internet parent company;

Now that Alibaba has taken over Youku, it has become one of everyone's "buyers" to a certain extent. Who can guarantee that its subsidiary Alibaba Pictures will not "fake the power of the tiger"?

Because whether it is a TV series or a movie, it must be logged on the Internet broadcast platform! If Alibaba Pictures wants to invest in your high-quality film and television project, how should you respond?

At 7:30 in the evening, Lin Nan drove out again; and this time, he took Liu Yifei with him and drove Liu Yifei's car.

At a high-end restaurant not far from the light, Wang Changtian, Ye Ning, and Wang Wei were already waiting here.

In the only small banquet hall on the 16th floor, Wang Changtian had already poured himself champagne before the food was served.

"Alibaba spent 28 billion to obtain absolute controlling rights. It is conservatively estimated that they hold more than two-thirds of the shares, or even 80%;

In the past two years, they have successively acquired no less than 40% of Youku's shares! By comparison, after Potato goes on the market, our market value cannot be less than 60 billion..."

The more Wang Changtian talked, the more excited he became. Guangguang was working hard to get back to 20 billion; but Tudou could easily be valued at this much! The types of companies are different, it’s really incomparable!

"It's a little early to say this. After all, Youku is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and we are going to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange."

Ye Ning said calmly, even frowning slightly.

It should have been a happy thing, but his mood was not like this, and the reason came from within Wanda. He just wants some shares...

Hearing Ye Ning's words, Wang Changtian did not refute, nodded and then talked about something else:

“We have to learn from Youku’s mistakes. The founder of Gu Gu has now directly become ‘continue to serve as interim chairman’;

This is the weakness of unicorn companies. Firstly, they have been established for a short period of time and have a weak foundation; secondly, the ownership structure is too dispersed and is not good! Mr. Wang, are you sure the potatoes are fine? "

Wang Wei certainly understood what Wang Changtian was asking. He smiled and nodded:

“Don’t worry, Mr. Wang, although the Hong Kong stock market currently does not allow companies with dual-class share structures to be listed, a small number of large companies can negotiate, and Tudou is one of them!

Earlier, I had led people to negotiate with them; Director Lin knew about this situation, otherwise he would not have kept emphasizing this matter. "

"That's good!"

Wang Changtian still had a smile on his face, just as he joked in front of Lin Nan a long time ago, saying that he might have to rely on potatoes for retirement in the future; because there are many giants in the film and television industry, competition is very difficult, but there are only a few video websites. Such two or three giants!

"Oh, by the way, I heard that Wanda has been crazy about shopping abroad recently. It seems that they have all been bought in Hollywood? Mr. Ye, is this true?"

Logically speaking, Ye Ning should not answer such a secret no matter how it is spread outside, but at this moment he nodded mysteriously:

"It should be soon, just in the next two or three months. Wanda will enter Hollywood and be bigger than Crystal Pictures."

Wang Changtian paused and realized that he had asked too much, "Then I wish Wanda success."

While several people were talking, the hotel foreman outside had already brought Lin Nan and Liu Yifei in.

"It seems that you are all more active than me? Hahaha..."

"Oh, Yifei is here too. This is the first time I've seen her."

Wang Changtian said with a smile. The first time he was referring to was when several people were discussing the financing and listing of Tudou, the first time he saw Lin Nan and Liu Yifei coming together.

"I'm just here to have a meal with Lin Nan. Director Wang, Mr. Ye, Mr. Wang, good evening." Liu Yifei greeted the three of them in turn.

"Director Wang, now?"

"It's time to serve."

"Okay, Director Wang."

The hotel foreman was obviously familiar with Wang Changtian, and he left immediately after receiving the answer.

Lin Nan took Liu Yifei and sat down. At this moment, everyone was here.

The reason why Lin Nan brought Liu Yifei here today is because Tudou is really going to start financing and launch its listing plan! And Liu Yifei owns half of his things.

The waiter eagerly served tea for several people and then left.

No one spoke about business until a team of waiters came in with a dining cart and served a table of more than thirty dishes. After everyone left, Wang Wei spoke.

"Director Lin, according to the plan, we can make a financing announcement to the outside world."

"When the financing announcement is made, there will definitely be many people coming to make ideas." Wang Changtian added.

"There should be capital with a name, including finance, the Internet, and banks!" Ye Ning affirmed.

Lin Nan silently helped Liu Yifei pick up the vegetables, and after a few seconds he said with a smile:

“No matter how many people make up their minds, we still can’t decide?

It will be released publicly on the 18th at the earliest, which is the day after tomorrow. By then I had already joined the crew, so basically no one could harass me. "

"The day after tomorrow? Okay!"

For a moment, Wang Wei and Wang Changtian spoke in unison, quite excited. Ye Ning just smiled and nodded.

"Mr. Ye, are you worried?"

Lin Nan noticed it and asked immediately.

"It's nothing, it's just a problem at work, it's just a small thing.

By the way, does Yifei want to be a director of Tudou? Director Lin has so many shares. "

Ye Ning changed the topic and talked about Liu Yifei.

"Me? I'll forget it. I'm tired of being in Hongxingwu."

Liu Yifei smiled and shook her head, decisively rejecting the proposal, but she was very happy in her heart and it was written all over her face.

"One more thing. How many rounds of financing are we going to do and then we submit an IPO?" Wang Changtian glanced at Lin Nan.

It stands to reason that Tudou's strength is sufficient. What is needed in the financing process is not money, but more allies and business relationships.

"Let's finish the first round first, and then we'll talk about it later. But there will definitely not be a third round!"

Lin Nan replied. Based on Lin Nan Pictures, Enlight and Wanda, plus Tudou, this is already a closed loop;

The next thing to do is how to make this "ring" bigger! New entrants must be carefully selected, not everyone can join.

"Okay, you can do it like this. To be honest, potatoes are very popular now! Haha..."

The purpose of today's dinner is not mainly to talk about business, because it only takes a few minutes to talk about business; the real purpose of this meal is to celebrate, to celebrate the official launch of potato's journey to the market!

At around nine o'clock in the evening, everyone dispersed. Lin Nan and Liu Yifei left first. The former was drunk, so the latter drove.

"Director Lin didn't sign the pre-marriage contract?"

Wang Wei looked at the sports car going away and asked Wang Changtian in a low voice.

"Well, they didn't sign." At this moment, Wang Changtian smiled very honestly, as if he had seen something beautiful.

"That's really enviable." Wang Wei sighed a little, so courageous!

At about 9:30, Ye Ning left alone. He had not touched the wine just now.

While Maybach was waiting at the red light, he made a phone call and went out.

"Hello?" a question came from the other side, and a faint smile could be heard.

"Mr. Wang, don't you have any notes from me?"

"Mr. Ye was joking, I just didn't see clearly just now; I was socializing outside at the moment and drank some wine."

The call paused for a second, and Wang Zhonglei took the initiative to ask:

"Mr. Ye, why are you calling me so late..."

"Let me confirm again whether the conditions Huayi promised to me have changed."

For a moment, Wang Zhonglei's breathing became a little short. Although Ye Ning had told him before that he would finish his job at Wanda for a year... But it was no different from perfunctory, just waiting for a price to sell, but at this moment... …

"It's never changed, only more! How about Mr. Ye coming over for a drink now? It's not here in my club anymore. There are so many people here, let's move to another place?"

Wang Zhonglei asked cautiously, looking forward to it.

There was silence on both ends of the phone again, only the sound of the wind blowing into the car.

After a long time, Ye Ning's voice sounded: "Okay, give me the address."

"Okay! I'm waiting for Mr. Ye..."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Ning's breath that was holding in her heart also dissipated, feeling a little weak. He held the steering wheel and gritted his teeth: "That's it."

On the other side, Wang Zhonglei happily left the club and stood at the door waiting for the driver to drive over.

At the same time, he also made a phone call.

"Brother, please come out. Ye Ning's matter is completely settled! He is on his way and will be at his old place soon."

"Okay, I'm going out right now."

Upon hearing the good news, Wang Zhongjun immediately responded, "This is Wanda's mainstay in the film and television industry and its capable person!"

…

The Ferrari drove into the villa and drove directly to the garage.

"Hurry up and go to bed. You have to get up early to go to school tomorrow." Liu Yifei looked at the unread messages on her phone and said to Lin Nan.

"We all made an appointment to meet tomorrow?"

"Well, everyone finally has a chance to get it together. By the way, I should go to the acting department, and you go to the directing department?"

Liu Yifei looked through the chat history in the group. Everyone was talking about the red carpet. Someone had already inquired about the process arrangements.

"It should be. You have to sign in tomorrow, just like when you were in school. Haha..."

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